LONDON (TCA) — In a clear attempt to follow in the footsteps of China’s President Xi Jinping who made a star-trip back in 2013 through Central Asia signing multi-billion-dollar deals on each and every stopover, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now set to tour the region starting from July 6. The aim is to strengthen India’s economic, and related political, clout in an area where it has not held any position to speak of since under British colonial rule back in the XIX Century. A close ally of the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War while at odds with arch-foe China most of the time, India now faces the task to cash in on a peace deal with both counterparts.